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Monday, October 05, 2015

glow in the dark pumpkins


I've been painting pumpkins during the fall for a very long time- so long that I kinda consider myself a pioneer of pumpkin painting! Back in 2010 my pretty painted pumpkins tutorial went viral and since then it has become a yearly tradition of mine to come up with a variety of unique pumpkin tutorials with the hope to inspire others to push the boundaries with paint and a pumpkin! I've got a few fun ideas coming your way in the weeks ahead and today I am kicking off the season with some glow in the dark pumpkins. 

Recently my friends at iLoveToCreate asked me if I would create another version of my pretty painted pumpkins but using their glow in the dark dimensional paint...it's no secret that I LOVE puff paint so I jumped at the challenge!

While you can use a plain pumpkin, I really enjoy starting with a colorful coat of paint. And since I am not into using typical fall or Halloween colors, I painted my pumpkins with a couple of pretty pastel colors.

I used a variety of the Tulip Dimensional Glow in the Dark Paint in a variety of colors. The great think about the dimensional paint is that is comes in a variety of really pretty colors which means your pumpkins will look really cool in both daylight and in the dark!


I used the paint and slowly added my decorative design around and around the pumpkin. I like to use lots of simple shapes that I embellish with tiny dots.


I painted a handful of pumpkins in different shapes and sizes.


In the daylight, the pumpkins are light and airy- a really pretty alternative to all those dark heavy fall colors and decor.

In the dark these pumpkins come alive! Use a black light or "charge" them in sunlight and they will glow bright!

Looking for more pumpkin decorating inspiration? 

You can read all about what I call "the art of decorating a pumpkin" HERE

OR 

check out all of the different pumpkin decorating tutorials below!






painted pattern pumpkins    sketchbook pumpkins    messy pumpkins   black and white pumpkins 




woodland creatures pumpkins

40 comments:

  1. These are awesome! I'd like them all year, so fun to have on the porch at night.

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  2. What a great idea!!! Pumpkins and glow in the dark paint are so perfect together, how cool for Halloween! I always love your pumpkin painting posts! Can't wait to see what your next ones are going to be!

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  3. Once again amazing pumpkins!AriadnefromGreece!

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  4. It is really amazing to see the great art work on a pumpkin. I want to try it out. I am a great art lover and always try to find the new creative works!

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  5. Another fantastic bunch of pumpkins. You have come up with marvelous ideas over the years.
    Barb J
    Charlotte, NC

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  6. I love all of the pumpkin tutorials. But my favourite is from last year; woodland creatures. You are always an inspiration Alisa :)

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  7. As always your imagination takes us to dream. It is awesome!!! Love Alisa.

    http://heartmakes.blogspot.pt/

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  8. Anonymous3:28 AM

    Seeing all of those photos together really made me smile - all so different! I think you really must be Queen of pumpkin painting. So many beautiful and good ideas there - the houses, the leaves, the face, animals, patterns it goes on, wonderful stuff and so much inspiration there. The colours are all different and look so good. Your new idea is brilliant as you get a different day time and night time look which is great.
    Sara

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  9. Wow! They look amazing! Great job

    Catrin

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  10. I agree with Sara- Scrolling down and seeing all the past pumpkin designs together made my eyes pop out of my head- how cool!

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  11. Wow! Such a brilliant idea! Stunning!

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  12. Awesome, as always.

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  13. You are amazing!!

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  14. Alisa, you make my heart sing! What better way to start off the fall season than with a glow in the dark pumpkin? So cool! So fun! Thank you always fo so generously sharing your talent.

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  15. woohoo! I look forward to these every year!

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  16. Wauw....so much prettier than the orginal ones.....I will try so make one although I think it is a smattering business...:-)

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  17. So cool !!! Omg love that idea :)

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  18. Amazing! Wow wow wow ❤

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  19. The woodland creatures pumpkins are my favorites.

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